New paper out in Cognitive Science! We analyzed various predictors of local ambiguity resolution on a heterogeneous set of garden-path sentences, namely surprisal, frequency, plausibility and cloze scores (measuring the likelihood of misanalysis of the ambiguous region). 1/2

4 million reaction times, 1,800 participants, countless insights. Our richly annotated self-paced reading corpus of newspaper headlines is here. Check it out. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Check out our new paper on garden-path processing in English: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Paper out!

Cool idea for a special issue!

Come to Prague in September!

Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

A 3-year full-time post-doc position in Prague! I'll be grateful for reposts. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. linguistlist.org/issues/36/10...

Check out a cool study by my colleagues: doi.org/10.1017/lang...

Paper out! @radlacina.bsky.social @annlaurin.bsky.social

Once again we made it to The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Paper out!

Anyone else using AI text to speech to create audio stimuli for psycholinguistic experiments? 🤖

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 shorturl.at/7hLH0

Applications to the Czech Summer School of Linguistics are now open. See program here: ssol.ff.cuni.cz/ssol-2024/

Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu

Mass shooting happened at our faculty in Prague today. I was in the building. I locked myself in the office and I was lucky the attacker was on the fourth floor and me on the first. We were later escorted outside by the police and we spent about three hours under police supervision. 1/2

More (or should I say less 🤔) number agreement attraction in 🇨🇿! Our paper with Jan Chromý and Jakub Dotlačil suggests that the phenomenon is either absent in the language or very small in size 1/n

Come do syntax and semantics with us in Oxford! This is another open rank position, so early career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. SynSem people like trees - and Magdalen College has lots of them! Get in touch if curious. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...